Ann Arbor Gets a NEWspaper

Breaking news – Heritage Newspapers, the operator of the Chelsea Standard and Dexter Leader, has announced a newspaper (right, the kind on newsprint) to be published weekly starting July 9, according to the Business Review.

The new weekly, to be called A2Journal, is to be “A free weekly, home-delivered newspaper launching July 9 covering the people, traditions and institutions that make Ann Arbor unique.”

As mentioned earlier, the Ann Arbor News will be closing in July. Its successor, AnnArbor.com, is said to be planning two print versions a week – Thursday and Sunday. This was presumably meant to capture the supermarket sale ad market and the government notices market. It ‘ll be interesting to see whether the new weekly can be a worthy competitor.